How I Lead Primary in Honduras | An Interview with Karla Fonseca

Karla Fonseca was born and raised in San Pedro Sula, the industrial
capital of Honduras, in Central America. She graduated as an
environmental engineer before serving in the Guatemala City Central
Mission. She later earned a master's degree in Environmental
Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), and is now a
senior in Marriage and Family Studies in BYU-Idaho's online
program. Karla has worked as an environmental coordinator and
manager and is currently the project manager at her family's
insurance business. Karla has served in Young Womens as a
president, counselor, secretary, and stake Personal Progress
specialist; as an Institute teacher, ward Relief Society secretary,
and temple worker in Las Vegas. She has also been a stake YSA
representative and historian for the regional EFY conference, and
has served as stake historian for over 10 years. She currently
holds three additional callings as stake self-reliance specialist,
Institute teacher, and ward Primary president. She hopes to
continue in Primary in her new ward as a music leader. Karla and
her husband Sergio Mejia have been married eight years and have a
5-year-old son. Highlights 02:40 Introduction to Karla and her
background 04:40 Karla describes the church in Honduras and ward
demographics. 08:00 Ward dynamics and the challenges that it has,
covering a large geographic area but with very few members 10:00
Karla’s experience as primary president in Honduras. Learning on
her own and as she went due to the lack of leaders in her area.
16:10 Principle one - Seek help from others Look for resources
online Join Facebook groups Get help from local leaders 23:00
Principle two - Work together with the ward council. Karla shares
her experience of how her ward council works together to support
families. 28:00 Primary needs the help of the ward council because
it’s not just the kids that need support but the parents too. 29:40
Principle three - Visualize the potential of the children. Karla
shares a personal experience she has had with the youth. 32:30
Karla shares her mission experience in Guatemala and a lesson she
learned. Seeing each person as important, even the smallest child
in your ward. 34:00 Final thoughts and Karla’s testimony of Jesus
Christ and being a leader Links Sharla Dance:
teachingprimarymusic.com Read the TRANSCRIPT of this podcast Listen
on YouTube Get 14-day access to the Core Leader Library The Leading
Saints Podcast has ranked in the top 20 Christianity podcasts in
iTunes, gets over 500,000 listens each month, and has over 10
million total downloads as part of nonprofit Leading Saints'
mission to help latter-day saints be better prepared to lead. Learn
more and listen to any of the past episodes for free at
LeadingSaints.org. Past guests include Emily Belle Freeman, David
Butler, Hank Smith, John Bytheway, Liz Wiseman, Stephen M. R.
Covey, Julie Beck, Brad Wilcox, Jody Moore, Tony Overbay, John H.
Groberg, Elaine Dalton, Tad R. Callister, J. Devn Cornish, Dennis
B. Neuenschwander, Anthony Sweat, John Hilton III, Barbara Morgan
Gardner, Blair Hodges, Whitney Johnson, Ryan Gottfredson, Greg
McKeown, DeAnna Murphy, Michael Goodman, Richard Ostler, Ganel-Lyn
Condie, and many more in over 500 episodes. Discover podcasts,
articles, virtual conferences, and live events related to callings
such as the bishopric, Relief Society, elders quorum, Primary,
youth leadership, stake leadership, ward mission, ward council,
young adults, ministering, and teaching.